Tom says it’s going to be more like “Micro-Bash.” But this being Wabash, a lot more people show up than RSVP. (He’ll insist it was the idea of others and his team’s work-I’ll push back and say it doesn’t happen without him.) The registration numbers had been discouraging early on. In the first we’re at the inaugural Big Bash, Tom’s reimagining of reunion weekend. In the other he’s sitting in the home of an alumnus saying hardly anything at all. In one he’s standing and talking in front of the Chapel with a microphone in his hand. Two images come quickly to mind when I think of my friend Tom Runge and, as he calls Wabash,”this good place.” We wish Tom the best and offer the following: Many of our best stories and most meaningful remembrances began in his office, and he contributed some of our finest photographs (contributions we hope will continue!) Tom has been an integral member of the Wabash Magazine team in ways that extend far beyond his always welcomed “Grunge Report” column.
Today marks Tom Runge’s last day as Director of Alumni and Parent Programs at Wabash and the beginning of a deeply-deserved retirement and third career into what will likely be an even fuller life with his wife, Carol, his children, and grandchildren.
